Writer S Block Quotes

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

I've never had writer's block.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.

It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.

There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.

Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

The annihilating strokes slashed across my penned heartfelt words.

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture.

...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.